I am an interdisciplinary designer with an artful and strategic approach to challenges and opportunities.
My main research interest and practice is centered in social design – using design as a process to create change in areas and systems not normally served by design. I employ ethnographic methods to get at the heart of a person or organization’s needs and believe that a collaborative approach to problem-solving is most effective. Involving stakeholders in the design process from the beginning can produce tremendous results, whether the task at hand is rethinking an educational model, developing a communications strategy, or working with a rural family create new sources of income. I believe the future will ask designers to be instigators and collaborators, not stylists or directors.
